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"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."
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